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beetleman
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What the heck is this?

Post by beetleman »

Found this small (about 5mm-.25") insect on my fence. Very hard to place it into any kind of group. Does not look like a true bug. Almost looks like some kind of cricket with the head shape and the long antennae but no jumping legs. Very strange looking (but cool) :wink:

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Post by Ken Ramos »

You know it looks kind'a like a little "jarfly," cicada. :smt028 I'm not sure. You got an excellent shot of it though. Those clear wings and their shape along with the abdomen is what reminds me of a cicada. :D

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Post by Mike B in OKlahoma »

I'd guess some sort of small fly or drosophila, but I don't really know.
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Post by paul »

Very interesting, Doug. Never seen anything like it myself. I find Ken's suggestion of a cicada tempting, but then the antennae are quite unusual. Or a grasshopper without hopping legs as you suggest? Another mystery.
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Post by Mike B in OKlahoma »

"Cicada" is superficially appealing, but I don't think there are any small flying hemiptera like this. Not that I know 'em all, I don't! :-)
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Gordon C. Snelling
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Post by Gordon C. Snelling »

It is a Psocoptera Bark lice.

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Post by salden »

Lice .. well..he is a cute little guy :lol:
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Post by beetleman »

Gordon, your right on the money. I would never have looked in the order Psocoptera. I cannot see the veins in the wings that good but it looks like a common barklice...Suborder Eupsocida---family Psocidae. Thanks again and thank you all for your comments :wink: http://bugguide.net/node/view/16192
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Post by Gordon C. Snelling »

Glad to help. It's nice to get it right from time to time.

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